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  • verb Present participle of replevy.

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Examples

  • Perhaps this custom was by way of retaliation, by which means the charge of payment of oats and a hen was recovered by the money paid for replevying their cattle, &c. so impounded.

    Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

  • Paddy, parting with an untasted bit of tobacco, began and recounted some of Sir Terence O'Fay's exploits in evading duns, replevying cattle, fighting sheriffs, bribing _subs_, managing cants, tricking

    Tales and Novels — Volume 06 Maria Edgeworth 1808

  • As to replevying Yeomans's stock that was arrested by the sheriff, 1 look upon it to be very illegal, because when once any thing is in the custody of the law nothing but a judgm 'of law can remove it.

    Collections 1792

  • 17 The writ, literally “for replevying a man,” was a means of procuring the release of a prisoner—an earlier equivalent of the writ of habeas corpus.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • 17 The writ, literally “for replevying a man,” was a means of procuring the release of a prisoner—an earlier equivalent of the writ of habeas corpus.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • 17 The writ, literally “for replevying a man,” was a means of procuring the release of a prisoner—an earlier equivalent of the writ of habeas corpus.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • GLOSSARY 8], and replevying and replevying, and he made a good living of trespassing cattle; there was always some tenant's pig, or horse, or cow, or calf, or goose, trespassing, which was so great a gain to Sir

    Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth 1808

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